Skippy Doo
I Do NOT own Scooby Doo or any of the Scooby Doo Charcters!
This story was thought of by me and one of my old co-workers!
Playtime Furniture
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby left the parking lot in the mystery machine, leaving Ted, Sprint, Tiffany, Selma and Skippy at Playtime Furniture.
"It's deserted." Ted said slowly. "I don't like this…"
"Relax. It's just a mystery." Selma said.
"I can't believe we agreed to do this." Sprint said just as a police officer walked up to them.
"You kids shouldn't be here." The officer said.
"We are with Mystery Inc." Tiffany stated. "We are here to solve the Mystery."
"Alright, well, I am Officer Tanonwanastaberman. I'll help you in any way I can." Tiffany, Sprint, Ted, Selma and Skippy locked at each other.
"Can we call you Officer T?" Ted asked. The officer nodded.
"Of course." Officer T smiled.
"Shall we begin?" Sprint asked.
"Yes." Officer T said. He pointed towards a warehouse. "We are standing in the same spot as three workers. From here, they saw the explosion through that window." Officer T lead the way inside the warehouse. "Here is where it all starts." Officer T said. "I'd look around the other areas too; the Warehouse Ghost has been everywhere. Things have been happening here. Strange things."
"Strange? How strange?" Sprint asked.
"Well, the paint room freezes instead of heats and the panel saws randomly turn on and off." Officer T told them. "Plus a few little things."
"Like?" Tiffany asked.
"Cut wires, missing boards, and broken clamps, simple little things. We don't think they are part of the mystery though."
"Everything should be considered part of the mystery." Selma stated.
"Well," Officer T said, grabbing a card from his pocket. "Here's my number. Call if you need anything. Good luck." And Officer T left.
"Alright…" Sprint said after Officer T left. "Now what?"
"Well…Fred told me they usually Split up and look for clues…we could do that." Ted suggested.
"Clues. Alright. Let's split up and look for clues." Sprint said. "Um…how should we split up?" Sprint asked.
"Let's have Selma and Ted go one way and you, me and Skippy go the other way." Tiffany suggested, looking at the rest of the gang. "Sound good?"
"Yeah…it works." Selma said.
"What should we look for?" Ted asked. Selma handed Tiffany a little notebook.
"Velma gave it to me." Selma stated. "Just a few things to look for." Tiffany and Sprint glanced at each other. Tiffany opened it.
"Clues." Tiffany started. "right…anything that looks out of place should be considered a clue. That does not include garbage."
"Obviously." Sprint said. "Find something useful." Tiffany nodded. She started flipping through the notebook.
"Nope…silly...never…Ah! Here we go. Unmasking the villain."
"That could come to be very helpful." Skippy chimed in."
"Have suspects…well no duh…Clues usually lead up to who done it." Sprint takes out four walkie talkies and hands them to Selma, Sprint and Tiffany.
"Well, let's start." Sprint said. "Let's do this." Everyone nodded and split up.
Sprint, Tiffany and Skippy were looking around near the warehouse and offices. Sprint and Skippy snooped around the warehouse while Tiffany looked in the office. Sprint wasn't having much luck, but Tiffany was able to get into the computer system and found a copy of the general layout of Playtime Furniture. Tiffany was fast at work when Skippy and Sprint joined her.
"What did you find Tif?" Sprint asked.
"A map of the building. Plus, I was able to get into the computer system and I found a list of all the workers and the area they work in."
"How's that going to help us Tif?"
"Hold on Sprint, I'm not done." Tiffany said. "I also found this recent article on the performance of the workers. For the longest time the warehouse and shipping workers got this recognition, but this year the builder's got it." Tiffany stated, turning to the computer. "Look at this picture. In the background, you see two people who don't exactly look happy."
"Yeah…"
"Well, I kept looking and if you look out the window, there is a car that is parked, hasn't moved. It is registered to a Mark Johnson. Apparently his keys went missing after this was taken."
"When was the photo taken?"
"Two days ago."
"The day before the hauntings happened." Skippy stated.
"Exactly." Tiffany said. "I already have six suspects."
"Six?" Sprint and Skippy said in unison.
"These three people in this photo, plus the two other supervisors and a guy named Bobby Jensen."
"Why Bobby Jensen?"
"He started working here just three days ago." Tiffany stated. "It makes perfect sense for a suspect."
"Wow Tiffany. You're on a role." Sprint said with a smile. Tiffany smiled.
"Thanks." Tiffany said, shutting the computer off and gathering her notes. "Let's go find Selma and Ted." Sprint nodded. Skippy, Sprint and Tiffany left to find Selma and Ted.
Selma and ted were not having any luck. Ted wasn't really watching where he was going and tripped on a cord and fell.
"Ted!" Selma exclaimed surprised. She got on the floor. "Are you alright?" Ted nodded and rolled onto his back. He tilted his head and reached under the movable line that boxes were simply sitting on.
"Hey, look what I found." Ted said, grabbing something. Ted sat up and handed Selma a set of keys.
"Keys… in a boxing line?" Tiffany, Sprint and Skippy walked up behind them.
"Hey Selma, what'cha got there?" Tiffany asked.
"Ted…why are you on the floor?" Skippy asked.
"Keys." Selma said, handing them to Sprint. "Ted found them after he tripped."
"Good job Ted." Sprint said. "For finding the keys. Not for falling." Ted stood up.
"Did you find anything?" Ted asked.
"Enough for possible suspects," Tiffany said. Just then the loud sound of saws started buzzing, making the teens jump.
"No one else should be here but us." Ted said slowly. The saws suddenly stopped.
"Come on, let's keep moving." Selma said. The four teens and Skippy continued to search for clues. It wasn't long after the search when someone's voice sounded behind them.
"You kids shouldn't be here." The women's voice said.
"Neither should you." Sprint said as he, Skippy and the others turned around.
"I work here." The woman said.
"Last time we checked, the factory was shut down for the safety of their workers." Skippy stated.
"Or did you not get that memo." Tiffany asked. "We're here to investigate this so called ghost hauntings."
"Ghost? Really. There are no such things as ghost."
"Wait…I recognize you." Sprint stated, looking towards Tiffany. "Remember the article you read. She was one of the people in the picture."
"You're right Sprint." Tiffany said, looking now at the woman. "You're Susan Richards."
"How do you know me?"
"You were in an article we read about losing recognition for the best performance." Susan glared at the kids.
"You're meddling in something you shouldn't be meddling in." Susan said, glaring at the kids. "You better watch your backs, Mystery Inc."
"FYI, we are not Mystery Inc." Selma stated.
"Yeah, we're just helping out our cousins." Ted claimed.
"Well, whoever you are, you've been warned." Susan left.
"She's scary…"Ted said when she finally got out of sight.
"A suspicious person…" Selma hinted.
"Already on our suspect list." Tiffany said.
"What list?" Ted and Selma said in unison.
"The list that Tiffany made." Sprint said. "She's one of our suspects. Along with the other supervisors and some random guy named Bobby Jensen."
"Explain?" Selma said.
"Susan and Greg, the ware house and Shipping supervisors, won an award for having the best performance rating in the factory for years. Just this year, they lost it to the building area. They weren't exactly happy about that."
"And the others?" Selma asked.
"Maybe they were jealous." Ted stated.
"Maybe…" Tiffany said. "Come on, let's keeping looking for clues so we can get out of here." The five of them continued moving. "Not long after they got started, they heard a low, creaking, eerie noise, and it wasn't the saws.
"What's that noise?" Ted asked quickly.
"It sounds like a machine." Selma said. "A very loud machine."
"Or a monster…" Ted trailed off, slowly backing away. Tiffany moved closer to the noise.
"Or it's a cardboard crusher." Tiffany pointed out.
"You guys get worried over nothing." Sprint said just as the room went dark. In the dark, they heard laughter and the lights popped back on.
"I am the Warehouse ghost!" The ghost said with an evil laugh. Suddenly the lights started to flicker, on and off, saws started buzzing, doors were opening and closes by themselves and oil started spilling out of the cardboard crusher.
"AHH!" Sprint, Ted, Tiffany and Selma screamed. The five of them ran for the closest exit.
"The car!" Ted said once they were outside. He ran towards the only car in the parking lot. Sprint unlocked the doors and everybody climbed in. Tiffany in the passenger's seat, Sprint, in the driver's seat, Ted, Selma and Skippy were in the back.
"Everyone hold on!" Sprint started the car and put it in drive and put his foot on the gas pedal and drove out of the factory.
"Do you even know how to drive?" Ted asked Sprint.
"No!" Sprint yelled as he drove into a ditch. Sprint shut off the car and everyone climbed out. The four teens grabbed their cell phones and dialed a number.
"The bowling Kings Ghost is non-other than..." Velma pulled off the mask.
"Steven Durfree." The crowed said in surprise in unison as the mask came off."
"He thought he could save his title of Brunswick King by scaring off his competition." Daphne stated.
"Not only that," Fred continued the explanation. "He didn't like how the place was run. He thought that if he could shut it down, he could buy it and rebuild it and run it himself."
"Keeping himself the one only Brunswick Bowling King." Shaggy added.
"And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids and your dumb dog." The police took Steven Durfree away and the crowd started to disappear when the Mystery Inc. gang cell phones went off. Together the four teens answered.
"Hello?"
"We stole a car!" The Mystery Inc. gang exchanged glances.
"We'll be right there. Don't move." They hung up their cell phones.
"Come on gang, lets go." Fred said. They got into the Mystery Machine.
"I hope they're alright." Daphne said.
"Come on, let's just find out what happened." Velma suggested.
"Like, Dude, I could really use a hamburger right about now."
"Reah! And Rench Ries." The Mystery Inc. gang dove off to find their cousins.
I'm taking a break from some of my other stories and decided to post this story. I've had it on the computer for awhile (and parts in a notebook). It is still being worked on, but everything is kinda laid out and just needs to be written on paper.
Don't worry, I'm not giving up on ANY of my other stories. I WILL finish them. Hopefully soon! Gonna be getting ready for my brothers grad party in June and a wedding in July. Plus I am working, but I will have more time to work on it them I did last summer!
Please comment!